Ballots to remain uncounted in MI and Stein blocked in Philly. Guest: Election integrity, law expert Paul Lehto says this proves 'only option is to get it right on Election Night'. Also: Trump taps climate denier, fossil-fuel tool for EPA...

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Democrats in Congress join the fight for climate legislation; the gray wolf gets de-listed; billions of fish needlessly killed each year by power plants; flame-retardants in your water... PLUS: the fish you eat are guaranteed to be zit- and depression-free (even if they get sucked into your friendly local power plant)!... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

Republicans Lie About Cost of Climate Change Legislation to American Consumers: Light-Switch Fever!

John Boehner and other House Republicans have been going around saying that Obama's cap-and-trade proposal to reduce carbon emissions will cost each U.S. household $3,128 per year. Where'd they get that figure from? Apparently from this MIT analysis of a similar plan. Except when the St. Petersburg Times called up John Reilly, one of the authors of the report, he said of the GOP number: "It's wrong in so many ways it's hard to begin." Doh.

The 100 surviving wolves would be the minimum before the animals could again be considered endangered. "I'm prepared to bid for that first ticket to shoot a wolf myself," Otter said earlier Thursday during a rally of about 300 hunters....

[A]dvocacy group Defenders of Wildlife in Boise...said Otter's proposal would return wolves to the verge of eradication.

"Essentially he has confirmed our worst fears for the state of Idaho: That this would be a political rather than a biological management of the wolf population," Stone said. "There's no economic or ecological reason for maintaining such low numbers. It's simple persecution."

There's gold in that thar sea floor. Silver, copper, zinc and lead, too. The problem is, it's a mile or two underwater and encased in massive mineral deposits that layer a dark, mysterious world....But new technology and worldwide demand have combined to make mining for these metals economically feasible for the first time.